The Meaning of Numbers 32:26 Explained

Numbers 32:26

KJV: Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:

YLT: our infants, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

Darby: Our little ones, our wives, our cattle, and all our beasts shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

ASV: Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Our little ones,  our wives,  our flocks,  and all our cattle,  shall be there in the cities  of Gilead: 

What does Numbers 32:26 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 32:20-42 - Warning Against Forsaking Their Brethren
These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religious life, first at Shiloh and then at Jerusalem. On them first the tide of invasion broke, sweeping them and their cattle into captivity.
In Deborah's great song Reuben is rebuked for sitting "among the sheepfolds to hear the pipings for the flocks," instead of coming to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The Brahmins say that the holy man dies to every other sin earlier and easier than to the love of money. Their cattle kept these tribes on the wrong side of the river of separation! Let us beware of the cares of this world, if we are poor, and of the deceitfulness of riches, if we are rich. Better lose all than the soul. See Matthew 16:26. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 32

1  The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
6  Moses reproves them
16  They offer him conditions with which he is content
33  Moses assigns them the land
39  They conquer it

What do the individual words in Numbers 32:26 mean?

Our little ones our wives our flocks and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead
טַפֵּ֣נוּ נָשֵׁ֔ינוּ מִקְנֵ֖נוּ וְכָל־ בְּהֶמְתֵּ֑נוּ יִֽהְיוּ־ שָׁ֖ם בְּעָרֵ֥י הַגִּלְעָֽד

טַפֵּ֣נוּ  Our  little  ones 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common plural
Root: טַף 
Sense: children, little children, little ones.
נָשֵׁ֔ינוּ  our  wives 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
מִקְנֵ֖נוּ  our  flocks 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common plural
Root: מִקְנֶה  
Sense: cattle, livestock.
וְכָל־  and  all 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
בְּהֶמְתֵּ֑נוּ  our  livestock 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common plural
Root: בְּהֵמָה  
Sense: beast, cattle, animal.
יִֽהְיוּ־  will  be 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אֶהְיֶה 
Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
בְּעָרֵ֥י  in  the  cities 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
הַגִּלְעָֽד  of  Gilead 
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, feminine singular
Root: גִּלְעָד  
Sense: a mountainous region bounded on the west by the Jordan, on the north by Bashan, on the east by the Arabian plateau, and on the south by Moab and Ammon; sometimes called ‘Mount Gilead’ or the ‘land of Gilead’ or just ‘Gilead’.

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